When a forensic linguist named Delia Marsh volunteered her analysis of suicide notes left at three unrelated death scenes in rural Montana, she noticed something no detective had: the same grammatical ghost — an identical, statistically improbable sentence structure appearing in notes supposedly written by three different people who never knew each other. Tonight, we trace how one academic's obsession with the architecture of language unraveled a decade of accepted conclusions, implicated a hospice worker trusted by dozens of dying families, and forced a reckoning with how easily grief can be authored by someone else. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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